Wild Card

The SHOT Show is all about the business of the industry. Walking by booth after booth, there are various methods to attract the attention of buyers and media. R. Lee Ermey, better known as Gunny from “Full Metal Jacket” was lending his draw at the SOG Specialty Knives booth.

Ralph and Vicki Cianciarulo don't have to go anywhere for Deer Camp; they live it. Amid the miles and miles of corn and soybean fields in northwest Illinois, there stands the largest wooded area around.

As he sat in a stand at Deer Camp, Bob Richardson could feel his feet. They were cold. That was a good thing. He hadn't felt that sensation for 15 years, hadn't felt anything normal from his knees down since the last millennia.

With his best deer of his life, Grant Darrah thought it was finally time to enter the Big Buck Contest. So the 55-year-old from Coudersport brought his 10-pointer up to the Sweden Valley Inn on opening day of the Pennsylvania gun season.

Aricka and Chip, sleeping in a tree, H-U-N-T-I-N-G. That take on the old playground song will play out starting Thursday in the deer woods of Hancock County, Ill., when Fear No Evil warriors Chipcity Spauling and Arika Sanders get locked into a blind for three days.